FloraLife Quick Dip 100 Instant Hydrating Solution

Production-volume stem conditioning has no tolerance for mid-batch interruptions — and neither does a studio conditioning two hundred stems for a Saturday morning pickup. FloraLife® Quick Dip 100 Instant Hydrating Treatment, 1 Gallon (SKU: 80-03783) is sized for that workload: the production-format version of the industry's most specified stem pretreatment, delivering the same ready-to-use instant hydration chemistry used by wholesale receiving operations, high-throughput retail flower shops, and wedding studios conditioning full farm-direct shipments in a single cycle. Developed by FloraLife, a division of the Smithers-Oasis Company — the professional flower care brand defining post-harvest floral science since 1938 — Quick Dip 100 targets vascular air blockage at the stem base with a one-to-three-second dip that maximizes solution uptake, reduces bent neck in roses and gerberas, and substantially lowers shrink across field-grown crops and farm-direct arrivals processed at volume. At a gallon per container, it sustains a full day's conditioning volume without interruption or mid-session resupply.

• SKU: 80-03783 | FloraLife® Product #3783
• Size: 1 gallon (3.78 liters) per container
• Case quantity: 6 containers per case
• Form: Ready-to-use liquid — do not dilute
• Dip time: 1–3 seconds in approximately 2 inches (5–6 cm) of solution
• Works on: All fresh-cut flower varieties, including premade cash-and-carry bouquets
• Priority crops: Roses, gerbera daisies, and field-grown flowers most prone to bent neck

At production scale, the cost of a bent-neck rose or a drooping gerbera is not one stem — it is the margin on every stem in a batch conditioned inconsistently. FloraLife® Quick Dip 100 addresses that risk by chemically reducing surface resistance at the freshly cut stem end, allowing vascular tissue to take up water and dissolved nutrients immediately rather than fighting the air embolism that forms the moment a stem is separated from its source. The gallon format sustains a full conditioning station for an entire high-volume day: wholesale distributors processing farm-direct arrivals by the sleeve, event design studios conditioning hundreds of ceremony stems the day before a Saturday installation, large retail shops running a morning conditioning cycle on every shipment, and farmers market vendors prepping cut-flower inventory for a full weekend of sales. The 1-gallon container pours cleanly into multiple workstation buckets simultaneously, sustains a full day's dipping volume without resupply, and reduces per-stem product cost compared to smaller format pricing — which, at volume, compounds significantly across a full operating season.

The price listed is our everyday professional wholesale rate — the same rate working florists, event studios, and floral retailers pay, with no account application and no minimum order.

• Brand: FloraLife® — a division of Smithers-Oasis Company, Walterboro, SC
• Product Line: FloraLife® Quick Dip 100 Instant Hydrating Treatment
• SKU: 80-03783 | FloraLife® Product #3783
• Net volume: 1 gallon (3.78 liters) per container
• Case quantity: 6 containers per case
• Physical form: Colorless to light yellow aqueous liquid; slight odor
• Specific gravity (relative density): 1.02
• Flash point: N/A — non-flammable aqueous solution
• Active chemistry: Citric acid (<5%), sulfuric acid (<1%), water (>95%)
• Dip time: 1–3 seconds in approximately 2 inches (5–6 cm) of solution per use
• Dosage: Ready-to-use — do not dilute
• Compatible flowers: All fresh-cut varieties; roses, gerbera daisies, and field-grown crops most strongly indicated
• Not for use on: Artificial flowers, dried flowers
• Packaging: Bottle contains post-consumer recycled (PCR) plastic content
• Transport classification: Not regulated as dangerous goods (DOT / IATA / IMDG)

How to Use FloraLife® Quick Dip 100 at Production Volume — Step by Step

1. Pre-pour working solution into dedicated containers before the session begins. Never dip stems directly from the gallon container — this introduces foliage, debris, and microbial contamination into the bottle and forces early discard of the entire gallon. At the start of each conditioning session, pour approximately 2 inches (5–6 cm) of Quick Dip into each workstation container before stems arrive. At gallon volume, pouring ahead allows multiple stations to run simultaneously without re-pouring mid-session.
2. Strip foliage below the solution line on all stems before beginning. Remove all leaves, guard petals, and foliage that will fall below the working solution level in the holding container. At production volume, a single leafy stem per bucket contaminates the working solution far faster than in small-batch use. Clean stems extend working solution life across a full conditioning cycle and reduce waste.
3. Re-cut and dip in sequence — not batch re-cut then batch dip. Re-cut a minimum of 1 inch (3 cm) off the bottom of each stem with a clean, sharp knife or cutter and move immediately to the Quick Dip. At scale, the natural tendency is to re-cut an entire batch first and then dip — this defeats the purpose of the re-cut. Air embolisms begin forming at the cut face within seconds; the Quick Dip works on freshly opened vascular tissue, not tissue that has been sitting exposed to air. Process in sequence: re-cut, dip, transfer to food solution — one stem group at a time.
4. Dip for 1 to 3 seconds only — discipline the workflow, not the dip time. Place stems in the working solution for 1 to 3 seconds per FloraLife® protocol. At production volume, a common error is extending dip time under the assumption that longer contact improves uptake — it does not. The treatment is a rapid surface chemistry event, not a conditioning soak. If results feel inconsistent, the issue is almost always the gap between re-cut and dip, not the dip duration.
5. Transfer immediately to FloraLife® Fresh-Cut Flower Food solution. Move stems from the Quick Dip directly into a pre-mixed FloraLife® Fresh Flower Food solution. Have the flower food containers ready before the conditioning session begins — at production volume, a gap between the Quick Dip and the food solution allows air back into freshly opened stems and negates the benefit of the pretreatment. The two products are designed to work in sequence; neither is complete without the other.
6. Discard working solution at the end of each session without exception. Discard all used Quick Dip solution at the end of the conditioning session, or immediately when it becomes cloudy or visibly contaminated. At gallon volume, the temptation to carry working solution over to the next day to reduce product consumption is a consistent and costly error — contaminated solution introduces microbial populations directly into vascular tissue that has been opened to accept it, producing the blockage Quick Dip is designed to prevent. The per-stem cost of the product does not justify the shrink that follows.

Pro tip for multi-station operations: Pre-portion the day's working solution from the gallon into labeled workstation containers at the start of each morning. Keep the gallon container sealed and stored in a cool, dry location between sessions. Repeated opening throughout the day degrades solution integrity faster than sealed storage between pours. This single discipline meaningfully extends the effective working life of each gallon across a full operating week.

Wholesale floral distributors processing farm-direct arrivals by the sleeve, large-scale retail flower shops running daily conditioning cycles on regular shipments, professional wedding and event studios conditioning full seasonal inventories, hospitality and hotel floral programs managing weekly delivery volume, funeral and sympathy studios conditioning stems for high-throughput standing order accounts, farmers market vendors prepping multiple bucket varieties for weekend sales, and floral design schools conditioning classroom inventory at the start of each term all use the FloraLife® Quick Dip 100 gallon format as the first step in a verified, professional-grade post-harvest flower care system.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: At what point does it make operational sense to move from the 16 oz bottle to the FloraLife® Quick Dip 100 gallon?
A: The gallon (SKU: 80-03783) is the right format once Quick Dip 100 has become a standard part of your conditioning workflow and stem volume makes the 16 oz bottle a bottleneck. If you condition more than 50–75 stems per session, operate multiple conditioning stations simultaneously, receive regular farm-direct or wholesale shipments, or exhaust a 16 oz bottle in less than a week, the gallon eliminates mid-session restocking, reduces per-ounce product cost, and removes the friction of a small-format container at a high-throughput workstation. Most professional shops evaluate the product with the 16 oz bottle and convert to the gallon once the result is confirmed. The formulation is identical — the choice is purely operational.

Q: Does FloraLife® Quick Dip 100 need to be applied differently for mixed-species farm-direct shipments?
A: No — the same one-to-three-second dip protocol applies uniformly across all fresh-cut flower varieties, which makes it practical at production volume when a single conditioning cycle may include roses, gerberas, lisianthus, stock, and field-grown filler in the same batch. FloraLife® highlights roses and gerbera daisies as priority crops because those varieties have the highest incidence of bent neck, and field-grown crops because they travel longer from cut to conditioning. But the chemistry acts on the cut stem end regardless of species — the treatment reduces air resistance at the vascular entry point across all varieties, making it appropriate as a uniform first step across a mixed receiving cycle without sorting or separating by flower type.

Q: What is the best way to buy FloraLife® Quick Dip 100 at wholesale prices for a professional floral operation?
A: Right here, at the price shown. Every product on lofloristsupplies.com is listed at our everyday professional wholesale rate — the same price working florists, event studios, wholesale distributors, and retail buyers pay, with no account application, no minimum order, and no quoting process.

⚠ California Proposition 65 Warning: This product can expose you to chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm. For more information go to www.P65Warnings.ca.gov.